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For 21 years, O’Brien’s Collecting Toys has ranked as the ultimate guide to classic collectible toys. Now, this brand new, expanded edition features even more entries—some 17,000, and lists many more prices—more than 51,000 in up to four grades of condition.
What’s more, the updated and detailed descriptions plus nearly 4,000 pictures make this 10th edition a collectors’ necessity. Toy experts from around the country contributed their expertise to produce a comprehensive compilation that covers both common and ultra-rare toy manufacturers.
Carrying one of the most respected names in the toy industry, this volume adds new sections, such as farm toys, and expands others, such as vehicles. It has chapters on everything from animal-drawn toys to battery-operated toys, and from wood and composition toys to tin wind-up toys.
- Covers a wide variety of vintage toys that spans 90 years, from the late 1800s to the 1970s
- Includes nearly 17,000 listings and more than 51,000 values in up to four condition grades
- Carries more pictures than any other guide, nearly 4,000 color and black and white photos
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Schroeder's Collectible Toys : Antique to
Modern Price Guide (5th Ed) by Sharon Huxford (Editor), Bob Huxford (Editor).To meet the
toy market explosion, this third edition includes hundreds of new photos, listings and
information to reflect the current market. This easy-to-use guide puts buyers in touch
with sellers, magazines, clubs, and newsletters that cover specific fields of collector
interest. Includes values for over 20,000 toys. review by amazon.com click on picture
to purchase.
American Tin-Litho Toys by Lisa Kerr Just the
mention of a child's tea set, a spinning top, or a day at the beach with a shovel and pail
brings back fond memories of the wonderful tin-litho toys produced from the 1920s to the
1960s. Now, Lisa Kerr has compiled an informative volume which identifies these
collectible toy treasures, and helps determine their values. review by amazon.com click on picture
to purchase.
Yesterday's Toys : 734 Tin and Celluloid
Amusements from Days Gone by by Teruhisa Kitahara. Originally published in three volumes,
Yesterday's Toys features 750 tin and celluloid dolls, clowns, animals, planes, trains,
boats, cars, robots, spaceships, and monsters. The book, written by the world's largest
toy collector, features all a collector needs. 605 color photos. review by amazon.com click on picture
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Book Description
Boomers will be digging through their closets in search of their childhood
after paging through this colorful nostalgic photo reference of the toys and playthings
from the baby boomer generation. All ages will want to pick up this book and see whats
insidefrom the common to the obscurebringing back memories like the sound of tinker toys
being dumped from a can. Each of the 100 chapters includes photographs and text discussing
the origins and history of the popular toys, as well as other toys of the same type. For
collectors, value listings are included for many more than the 100 featured toys. As a
nostalgic picture book, it should become one of the primary gift books of the year.
-Full color photographs of over 100 toys from the '50s, '60s and
'70s.
-100 chapters ranking the best toys of the time.
-Price guide to estimate age and value.
-One of the best gift ideas of the year. review by amazon
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